> On 24. Apr 2021, at 22:52, Nelson H. F. Beebe <be...@math.utah.edu> wrote: > > [This is temporarily off the openindiana-discuss mailing list] > > You wrote on Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:58:06 -0400 > >>> That is after the boot loader menu. >>> The second page of loader includes an option to boot from alt BEs. > > If I use the virt-manager menu to send Ctl-Alt-Del, I get this output: > > Press ESC for boot menu. > > I quickly press ESC, producing: > > 1. AHCI/0: QEMU HARDDISK ... > 2. DVD/CD ... > 3. Legacy option rom > 4. iPXE ... > > I press 1 and get > > Booting from Hard Disk... > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable > ZFS: can't read MOS of pool rpool > > Can't find /boot/loader > > Can't find /boot/zfsloader > > illumos/x86 boot > Default: /boot/loader > boot: > > At that point, I no idea how to get to a ``second page of loader > options.'' >
At that point, you can’t. You got to boot loader stage1 program (gptzfsboot) and its prompt (boot: prompt). It is failing to read zfs pool to load and start next stage - /boot/loader). At this point, only simple diagnostics is possible - you can enter: status to get list of disks and ?path (like ?/) to get directory listing from path. Also you can enter alternate file name to be loaded and alternate disk device to load from. See also gptzfsboot(5). I can not guess what does trigger this situation, but one option is to start from alternate media (usb/iso), and check out what is going on there - what does zpool scrub tell etc. rgds, toomas > The boot prompt is opaque: it only prompts again when I try input like > "?", "help", "boot", ESCape, F1, F2, ..., F12, PageUp, PageDown, .... > > I find it often aggravating that BIOS code is so low level and > unusable without a separate manual. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 > - > - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 > - > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: be...@math.utah.edu > - > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 be...@acm.org be...@computer.org > - > - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ > - > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
